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Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union came apart, creating, from what had been eight states, twenty-nine states, nineteen of which are geographically in Europe.
“In their new homeland, these immigrants work hard and endure prejudice and economic hardships, but they do not give up. As the years go by they become the core of a new working or middle class. Not all their dreams may come true, but the hope for a better life is passed on to their children. This is why when one of them or their descendants becomes a winner, when one of them crosses the frontiers of poverty or failure, they all win in some way.”
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
“Confession also means confessing to an assignment. "Who are you?" The austere figure of John the Baptist stands there and says: "I am the one crying in the wilderness." Confession means proclaiming, praising and really spreading the word.”
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
“Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.”
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
“Yolanda, by killing Selena, had ended her own life.”
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
“You have to open a lot of oysters before you find a pearl.”
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
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